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Study Title:

The discussion on relationship between adenoids hypertrophy and food intolerance

Study Abstract

OBJECTIVE:
To explore the relationship between food intolerance and adenoidal hypertrophy and accordingly to provide evidence for intolerance and adenoidal hypertrophy.
METHOD:
Adenoidal hypertrophy in patients with a total of 111 cases as the experiment group, 30 cases of children with no history of allergies and allergy-related diseases and adenoidal hypertrophy symptoms as the control group, and compared the result of food intolerance between two groups.
RESULT:
1) Food intolerance detected positive rate of adenoidal hypertrophy group was higher than the control group. 2) The distribution of the two groups of children in the extent of food intolerance is different. 3) Adenoid hypertrophy and how many types of the food, which is high, moderate intolerance, are unrelated. 4) The daily consumption of 14 kinds of food, the top three foods of adenoidal hypertrophy group and control group are eggs, milk, cod.
CONCLUSION:
Food intolerance is the possible cause of adenoidal hypertrophy. The detection of specific IgG antibodies of food have positive significance in the prevention of adenoidal hypertrophy.

Study Information

Li Y1, Sun J, Zhang H.
[The discussion on relationship between adenoids hypertrophy and food intolerance].
Lin Chung Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi.
2013 June
Department of Otolaryngology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, 830054, China.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24015630